Triglochin maritima photograph from the Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility
Photograph by Jouko Rikkinen, CC BY-NC 4.0, via FinBIF. Licence ↗

FinBIF accepted taxon · MX.40125

Triglochin maritima L.

Family
Juncaginaceae
Genus
Triglochin
Common names
FI: merisuolake · SV: havssälting
2024 dataset
Recorded as Triglochin maritima
Open verified FinBIF record ↗

Coastal-meadow position

Our 2024 field observations

SEAINLANDOP 37%Open PioneerOP: 11 / 30 plots · 37% occurrenceLS 57%Lower ShoreLS: 17 / 30 plots · 57% occurrenceUS 3%Upper ShoreUS: 1 / 30 plots · 3% occurrenceTG 0%Tall GrassTG: 0 / 30 plots · 0% occurrencecommunity bands form a gradient · boundaries are not rigid

Occurrence uses the 30 sampled plots in each community. Community boundaries are not rigid; these are study observations, not a complete Estonian distribution. Study data and methods →

INDEPENDENT BOTANICAL EVIDENCE

General ecology

Triglochin maritima is a perennial wetland herb of coastal meadows, gaps among shore stones and shallow water. FinBIF also records it from rich fens inland in northern Finland, so its ecology is not exclusively coastal.

Sources: FinBIF / Laji.fi

Saardu6 / 20 plots
Keemu1 / 30 plots
Koera8 / 30 plots
Kudani14 / 40 plots

FINBIF TAXONOMY

Current verified classification

  1. kingdomPlantae Haeckel
  2. phylumTracheophyta Sinnott ex Cavalier-Smith
  3. classMagnoliopsida Brongn.
  4. orderAlismatales R. Br. ex Bercht. & J. Presl
  5. familyJuncaginaceae Rich.
  6. genusTriglochin L.
  7. speciesTriglochin maritima L.

OUR MEASURED TRAITS

Pool-wise CCI and leaf area

Trait values are pooled measurements collected during the 2024 coastal-meadow field campaign and are study observations, not fixed species constants. Only summaries with at least five measurements are shown.

OUR 2024 MEASUREMENTS

Chlorophyll Content Index

1.1

Range 0.81.8 · average 1.16 · n = 14

OUR 2024 MEASUREMENTS

Leaf area

0.571 cm²

Range 0.2290.795 · average 0.55 · n = 8

Licensed FinBIF photographs

Additional photographs

These views complement the primary photograph above without repeating it. Use them alongside a regional identification key; photographs alone are not sufficient for a field identification.

Triglochin maritima photograph from the Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility
Photograph by Jouko Rikkinen, CC BY-NC 4.0, via FinBIF. CC BY-NC 4.0 · source ↗
Triglochin maritima photograph from the Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility
Photograph by Jouko Rikkinen, CC BY-NC 4.0, via FinBIF. CC BY-NC 4.0 · source ↗

FIELD DATA → EARTH OBSERVATION

How this taxon enters the analysis

These steps show what this record contributes to the 2024 study. They do not turn the taxon name into a remotely sensed measurement.

  1. 1 · FIELD EVIDENCE29 of 120 plots

    24 occupied plots have a positive numeric cover value available for occupied-plot cover summaries.

  2. 2 · TRAIT ELIGIBILITYCCI n = 14 · leaf area n = 8

    Both traits passed the documented minimum of five measurements. Their species medians can be weighted by relative cover when constructing plot-level community-weighted means.

  3. 3 · MODEL LINKPlot response, not species detection

    Plot-level ecological responses are paired with UAV predictors. A fitted model can estimate variation in those responses across the landscape; this record does not train a classifier for Triglochin maritima.

Interpretation boundary: UAV or satellite imagery does not uniquely identify Triglochin maritima in this study. Follow the complete field-to-EO workflow →